scholarly journals THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF HUMAN HEALTH DAMAGE CAUSED BY NEGATIVE ECOLOGICAL EXPOSURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (4/2020) ◽  
pp. 42-54
Author(s):  
V. V. Dyadik ◽  
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N. V. Dyadik ◽  
E. M. Klyuchnikova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Health Damage ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

This article is devoted to a review of the theoretical foundations and methodological approaches to solving the problem of assessing the negative consequences for human health caused by anthropogenic environmental impacts. The authors analyze the goals, internal motives and types of damage assessments carried out by various researchers, determine the projections and measurements of the socio-economic category of damage. The study shows the main stages of the basic algorithm for the valuation of health damage. Two main methodological approaches to assessment are disclosed: the calculation of costs due to the negative impact and the assessment of the willingness to pay for risk prevention. The history of the emergence of these approaches, theoretical foundations, advantages and disadvantages, internal structure and logic of work are presented. In particular, with regard to the approach based on the determination of the cost of disease, the categories of cost directions that form its internal structure, research prospects and competing approaches to determining the cost of indirect costs are disclosed. In relation to the willingness to pay approach, a decomposition of economic terms is presented that determine the amount that the respondent is willing to pay for the agreed risk reduction. The basic economic components of the utility category for determining the willingness to pay have been determined. Analyzing various approaches to assessing damage, the authors make an attempt to determine the areas of their possible application in the implementation of scientific research and applied developments. Based on the analysis of the dynamics of the publication of research results, assumptions were made about the development trends of the two prevailing methodological approaches to assessing damage to human health in the world and in Russia, with substantiation of the underlying causes. A forecast has been made on the further evolution of the methodology for assessing damage to human health from adverse environmental impacts in Russia.

scholarly journals Commentary: Causal Inference for Social Exposures

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay S. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Observational Study ◽  
Causal Inference ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Social Epidemiology ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Cost

Social epidemiology seeks to describe and quantify the causal effects of social institutions, interactions, and structures on human health. To accomplish this task, we define exposures as treatments and posit populations exposed or unexposed to these well-defined regimens. This inferential structure allows us to unambiguously estimate and interpret quantitative causal parameters and to investigate how these may be affected by biases such as confounding. This paradigm has been challenged recently by some critics who favor broadening the exposures that may be studied beyond treatments to also consider states. Defining the exposure protocol of an observational study is a continuum of specificity, and one may choose to loosen this definition, incurring the cost of causal parameters that become commensurately more vague. The advantages and disadvantages of broader versus narrower definitions of exposure are matters of continuing debate in social epidemiology as in other branches of epidemiology.

scholarly journals Methodological approaches to determination of alcohol-related mortality in Russia and abroad

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey Gorgonyevich Solovyev ◽  
A M Vyazmin ◽  
E. A. Mordovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Alcohol Drinking ◽  
Medical Documentation ◽  
Attributable Mortality ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Related Mortality

The main methodological approaches to determination of alchol-related mortality (ARM), or alcohol-attributable mortality in Russia and abroad are revewed in the article. The characteristics of ARM as a phenomenon with complex internal structure have been done. The all alone conception of ARM as well as a number of its components are absent at the present time. The main methodological problems of identification of ARM in Russia and abroad are analyzed. The role of alcohol drinking pattern and dangerous influence of ethanol on human health are determined but only partially. The differences in determination of ARM in Russia and abroad have been revealed. The epidemiological approaches for determination of ARM without official statistics have got a number of objective reasons, e.g. first of all nonpossibility to determine all cases of mortality from alcohol-releted states registered by national services of statistics and low significance of primary medical documentation.

scholarly journals Criteria for choosing the cost allocation base for industrial enterprises

2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 09035
Author(s):  
Anatolii Kholkin
Keyword(s):  
Cost Allocation ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Indirect Costs ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

This article is devoted to solving the actual problem of forming a system of criteria for selecting an indirect costs allocation base. Therefore, the purpose of this article was to determine the criteria for selecting an indirect costs allocation base in industrial enterprises. To achieve this goal, the following methods were used: analysis, synthesis, generalization, thought experiment, tabular method, and graphical representation. In the result of using these methods, six criteria for selecting an allocation base were identified. For each of the criteria, a description and justification of its choice were given. Negative consequences were described in the form of cost distortions depending on the selected allocation base. The theoretical significance of this research is to develop cost allocation methods in terms of certainty of process of a choice of the allocation base. The practical significance of the article is the development of clear and unambiguous criteria, the use of which in the process of organizing cost accounting in terms of selecting the allocation base will increase the objectivity and provability of the result obtained. This article will be useful for researchers working in the field of developing the theoretical foundations of accounting and cost management, as well as practitioners in the field of management accounting, as well as managers at various levels.

scholarly journals Valuation of External Costs of Wet-Season Lowland Rice Production Systems in Northern Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamthorn Thambhitaks ◽  
Jirawan Kitchaicharoen
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Rice Straw ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
External Costs ◽  
Human Health Damage ◽  
Health Damage ◽  
Rice Straw Burning

This study aims to assess the external costs of environmental impacts associated with the rice production systems using LCA approach and evaluated them into the economic value. The study compared the different chemical and energy use, as well as straw management of the three different rice production systems, included the mainstream conventional rice system, GAP rice system, and the organic rice system in Northern Thailand. The LCA analysis quantified the midpoint and endpoint of five environmental impacts, including climate change, terrestrial acidification, eutrophication, water depletion, and human health damage, from cradle-to-farm gate. The results of economic valuation revealed that the external costs of the conventional and GAP rice systems have significantly higher than that of the organic system. Most external costs came from the wastewater treatment cost due to the eutrophication mainly arising from the use of chemical fertilizer. Besides, about one-fourth of the total external costs came from the human health damage cost due to the open-air rice straw burning. To reduce the external costs of rice production, the amount of chemical fertilizer use causing eutrophication should be diminished and replaced by applying organic fertilizer from incorporating rice straw into the soil as well as growing a rotational crop after rice cultivation to stop the open-air rice straw burning and reduced the human health damage. The government should encourage rice farmers to the organic rice farming and manage the rice straw without burning because they may have the cost burden, whereas society gains more benefits from less pollution. Keywords: Economic valuation, Environmental impacts, Life Cycle Assessment, Rice production systems, Thai Good Agricultural Practice

Main approaches to estimating the cost of shareholder equity of oil and gas producers

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 685-697
Author(s):  
O.V. Shimko
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Free Cash Flow ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Oil And Gas Producers ◽  
The Cost

Subject. The study analyzes generally accepted approaches to assessing the value of companies on the basis of financial statement data of ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Occidental Petroleum, Devon Energy, Anadarko Petroleum, EOG Resources, Apache, Marathon Oil, Imperial Oil, Suncor Energy, Husky Energy, Canadian Natural Resources, Royal Dutch Shell, Gazprom, Rosneft, LUKOIL, and others, for 1999—2018. Objectives. The aim is to determine the specifics of using the methods of cost, DFC, and comparative approaches to assessing the value of share capital of oil and gas companies. Methods. The study employs methods of statistical analysis and generalization of materials of scientific articles and official annual reports on the results of financial and economic activities of the largest public oil and gas corporations. Results. Based on the results of a comprehensive analysis, I identified advantages and disadvantages of standard approaches to assessing the value of oil and gas producers. Conclusions. The paper describes pros and cons of the said approaches. For instance, the cost approach is acceptable for assessing the minimum cost of small companies in the industry. The DFC-based approach complicates the reliability of medium-term forecasts for oil prices due to fluctuations in oil prices inherent in the industry, on which the net profit and free cash flow of companies depend to a large extent. The comparative approach enables to quickly determine the range of possible value of the corporation based on transactions data and current market situation.

Renovating the View of Cost Sharing for the Underground Low Voltage Cable Projects in Hanoi

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5E) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pham Thi Thu Ha ◽  
Phan Dieu Huong
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Cost Sharing ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Power Grid ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Well Field ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sharing Responsibility ◽  
The Cost

Underground power grid projects in Hanoi is so urgent that it requires immediate implementation. To synchronously and quickly implement the underground power grid projects, people in charge should not follow the outdated perspectives of just including the power industry, but also need to call for the support and cost sharing responsibility from consumers. This paper aims at approaching the subject both from the producers and consumers’ perspectives to together sharing the cost of putting the power grid underground not only in Hanoi but other metropolitans in Vietnam as well. Field studies (including 104 families) at Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi and CBA method were applied to investigate the willingness to pay (WTP) level of consumers to share the cost with the power industry for the underground power grid projects in Hanoi. The overview of the results shows that cost for the underground power grid in Hoan Kiem District ranging from 30,000 VND/household/month to 46,000VND/household/month. On the other hand, the willingness to pay of a typical household of four people within Hoan Kiem District ranges from 17,000VND/month to 24,000VND/month, with the most favorable method of annual payment within a detailed timeline.

ECONOMIC SUBSTANTIATION OF TRANSITION TO PERSONNEL OUTSOURCING IN THE ORGANIZATIONS OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

2020 ◽  
pp. 70-79
Author(s):  
V.V. Verna
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Construction Organization ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

The article provides a rationale for methodological approaches to assessing the effectiveness of outsourcing in organizations of the construction industry using the example of outsourcing schemes to perform personnel functions. The conditional example shows the impact of the use of outsourcing on reducing the costs of a construction organization. The main prerequisites for the use of outsourcing in the activities of enterprises in the construction industry are identified, methodological approaches to assessing the cost-effectiveness of personnel outsourcing in the construction industry enterprises are substantiated.

Classification of the factors forming the cost of the web-site

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
E. S. Epifanov
Keyword(s):  
Web Site ◽  
Internet Site ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Web

This article presents a classification of major factors that shape the cost of Internet site. Also discusses the limitations in determining the objectives of the web site; advantages and disadvantages of different factors.

Effects and Risks of Distance Learning in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
Yu. M. Tsygalov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
First Results ◽  
Spread Of Infection ◽  
The Cost

The forced work of Russian universities remotely in the context of the pandemic (COVID-19) has generated a lot of discussion about the benefits of the new form of education. The first results were summed up and reports were presented, the materials of which showed that the main goal of online education — the prevention of the spread of infection, - has been achieved. Against this background, proposals and publications have appeared substantiating the effectiveness of the massive introduction of distance learning in Russia, including in higher education. However, the assessment of such training by the population and students in publications and in social networks was predominantly negative and showed that the number of emerging problems exceeds the possible benefits of the new educational technology. Based on the analysis of the materials of publications and personal experience of teaching online, the potential benefits and problems of distance learning in higher education in Russia are considered. It is proposed to consider the effects separately for the suppliers of new technology (government, universities) and consumers (students, teachers, society). It is substantiated that the massive introduction of online education allows not only to reduce the negative consequences of epidemics, but also to reduce budgetary funding for universities, optimize the age composition of teachers, and reduce the cost of maintaining educational buildings. However, there will be a leveling / averaging of the quality of education, and responsibility for the quality of training will shift from the state/universities to students. The critical shortcomings of online education are the low degree of readiness of the digital infrastructure, the lack of a mechanism for identifying and monitoring the work of students, information security problems, and the lack of trust in such training of the population. The massive use of online education creates a number of risks for the country, the most critical of which is the destruction of the higher education system and a drop in the effectiveness of personnel training. The consequences of this risk realization are not compensated by any possible budget savings.

Deferring Crisis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Stewart Mauldin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Antebellum South ◽  
Westward Expansion ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Land Use Practices ◽  
Ecological Regime

This chapter explores the ecological regime of slavery and the land-use practices employed by farmers across the antebellum South. Despite the diverse ecologies and crop regimes of the region, most southern farmers employed a set of extensive agricultural techniques that kept the cost of farming down and helped circumvent natural limits on crop production and stock-raising. The use of shifting cultivation, free-range animal husbandry, and slaves to perform erosion control masked the environmental impacts of farmers’ actions, at least temporarily. Debates over westward expansion during the sectional crisis of the 1850s were not just about the extension of slavery, they also reflected practical concerns regarding access to new lands and fresh soil. Both were necessary for the continued profitability of farming in the South.

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